BOULDER, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 13, 2005—
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) announced its
Executive Committee for the electronic design automation (EDA)
industry's premier event. The committee, comprised of volunteer
representatives from the electronics and EDA industries and academia,
is responsible for planning the technical program, overseeing the
exhibition, establishing new initiatives, managing operations and
publicity for the 43rd DAC, which will be held July 24-28, 2006, at
Moscone Center in San Francisco.

The 43rd DAC Executive Committee is led by General Chair, Ellen M.
Sentovich of Cadence Berkeley Laboratories who will provide strategic
direction for the conference. Ms. Sentovich's research at Cadence
Berkeley Laboratories includes logic synthesis, system-level design,
synchronous languages and design of synchronous systems. Before
joining Cadence Berkeley Laboratories in 1996, she was with INRIA, the
French National Computer Science Research Laboratory, where she was a
postdoctoral researcher with a fellowship from the National Science
Foundation and worked on synthesis from synchronous language
specifications. Her experience also includes consulting work with
Intel in Haifa, Israel. Ms. Sentovich received bachelor's of science,
master's of science and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and
computer science from the University of California Berkeley. She has
also served as technical chair and general chair of ICCAD, the
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.

"This year's Executive Committee represents a wealth of experience
and expertise in the EDA and electronics communities," said Sentovich.
"Their knowledge, combined with their energy and dedication will
ensure that DAC will continue to serve the industry as the most
comprehensive and useful forum for designer engineers, researchers and
exhibitors to learn, network and exchange information and ideas."

DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry to
exchange information on products, methodologies and processes.
Attended by more than 10,000 developers, designers, researchers,
managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and
universities around the world, DAC includes more than 200 exhibitors
and offers a robust technical program covering the electronics
industry's hottest trends to bring people to the event.

The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA),
the Circuits and Systems Society and Computer Aided Network Design
Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CANDE), and the Electronic Design Automation
Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are found at:
www.dac.com.